True love has to overcome many pitfalls. Marital love, to have a strong hope of lasting, must be composed of three rods. Dave and Clarice know this.

Clarice wants to be the best real estate agent. For the sake of her career, she is gradually sidelining her husband. Dave takes it pretty well at first. Despite Clarice’s resentment, Dave is an exemplary husband who is still interested in his wife.

Dave coaches a children’s baseball team and longs for a quiet family life. A car accident interferes with their lives and Clarice is seriously injured. She begins to undergo physical therapy and the injury radically interferes with is career as a real estate agent.

Years later, the marital relationship finds itself in crisis and has to face several trials. The situation is exacerbated by the presence of Dave’s mother-in-law, who transfers personal injuries into the deteriorating relationship between Dave and Clarice.

This romantic drama from a black background spiced with a good dose of African-American temperament was based on the bestselling novel by T. D. Jakes. The film nicely shows that the ultimate cement in marriage is God.

Parents Guide: Multiple times provocatively dressed women in short skirts, tank tops or dresses with more cleavage and in swimsuits. 2x kissing husbands. Several times ambiguous innuendo. 1X Dave kissing another woman. Multiple times dealing with the divorce of one of Dave’s friends who flirts with other women. Multiple times of shirtless men. Clarice refusing to have children and not showing much interest in a married sex life. Clarice’s friend confesses to cheating on her husband. Clarice’s mum talking about how Clarice’s dad cheated on her. More times a fist fight. 1x woman describing being beaten by her husband and talking about her hatred of him. 1x a man getting drunk.

Cast: Maeve Quinlan, Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Eddie Cibrian, Kevin Hart, Jenifer Lewis, Wood Harris, Albert Hall

Crew: Bill Duke

USA, 2009

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